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A 100% ER positivity is not required for an endocrine therapy response. Furthermore, while estrogen typically promotes the progression of hormone-dependent breast cancer via the activation of estrogen receptor (ER)-α, estrogen-induced tumor sup...

The estrogen receptor alpha (ESR1) is an important gene transcriptional regulator, known to mediate the effects of estrogen. Canonically, ESR1 is activated by its ligand estrogen. However, the role of unliganded ESR1 in transcriptional regulation has...

Impaired circulating estrogen levels have been related to impaired glycemic homeostasis and diabetes mellitus (DM), both in females and males. However, for the last twenty years, the relationship between estrogen, glycemic homeostasis and the mechani...

Ovarian cancer remains the leading cause of death due to gynecologic malignancy. Estrogen-related pathways genes, such as estrogen receptors (ESR1 and ESR2) and their coregulators, proline-, glutamic acid-, and leucine-rich protein 1 (PELP1), and pro...

A considerable number of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer (ER+ BrCa) patients develop resistance to endocrine treatment. One of the most important resistance mechanisms is the presence of ESR1 mutations. We developed and analytically validate...

Endometrial stromal cell (ESC) plasticity is critical to embryo survival and conceptus elongation; however, their genetic regulation remains unclear. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms by which ESR1 regulates sheep fecundity through endometrial fu...

Breast cancer (BC) is a multifactorial condition and it primarily expresses the estrogen receptor α (ERα) that is encoded by the gene estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1), which modulates estrogen signaling. ESR1, by facilitating estrogen overprodu...

Decreased bone mass in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) is a clinical problem with extremely severe consequences of osteoporotic fractures. Despite its increasing prevalence and the need for mandatory intervention and monitoring, it is...

ESR1 mutations contribute to endocrine resistance and occur in a high percentage of hormone-receptor-positive (HR+) metastatic breast cancer (mBC) cases. Cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 inhibitors (CDK4/6i) changed the treatment landscape of HR+ mBC, as...

ESR1 methylation was proposed as mechanism for endocrine resistance in metastatic breast cancer patients. To evaluate its potential as a minimally invasive biomarker, we investigated the feasibility of measuring ESR1 methylation in cell-free DNA (cfD...

Background Estrogen receptor α (ERα) contributes to maintaining biological processes preserving health during aging. DNA methylation changes of ERα gene (ESR1) were established as playing a direct role in the regulation of ERα...

In patients with metastatic estrogen-receptor (ER)-positive HER2-negative breast cancer, the loss of ER expression and the mutation of ESR1—the gene encoding the ER receptor—are mechanisms for resistance to endocrine therapy. We aimed to...

Approximately 70% of breast cancers, the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, are positive for the estrogen receptor (ER). Treatment of patients with luminal subtypes is mainly based on endocrine therapy. However, ER positivity is red...

(1) Background: The prevalence of knee osteoarthritis (OA) in women is significantly higher than in men. The estrogen receptor α (ERα) has been considered to play a key role due to a large gender difference in its expression. ERα is encoded by the ge...

Uterine leiomyomas are estrogen-dependent benign tumors with unknown etiologies. Phthalates are endocrine-disrupting chemicals and ubiquitous in the environment; thus, it has been suggested that they play a role in the development of uterine leiomyom...

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a combination of metabolic disorders associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Studies in women reported associations between polymorphisms in ESR1, LPL and CETP genes and MetS. Our aim was to ev...

Mutations in the hotspot ligand-binding domain of the estrogen receptor (ER) gene ESR1 have recently been recognized as mechanisms of endocrine resistance in endocrine receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer (MBC). Accumulating data suggest these...

Although circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA)-based next-generation sequencing (NGS) is a less invasive method for assessing ESR1 mutations that are essential mechanisms of endocrine therapy resistance in patients with oestrogen receptor-positive breast ca...

ESR1 mutations have been recently associated with resistance to endocrine therapy in metastatic breast cancer and their detection has led to the development and current evaluation of novel, highly promising therapeutic strategies. In ovarian cancer t...

Estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) is widely expressed in reproductive organs, but also in non-reproductive tissues of females and males. There is evidence that lipocalin 2 (LCN2), which has diverse immunological and metabolic functions, is regulate...

(1) Background: The role of estrogen receptor gene 1 (ESR1) in female reproduction and lipid metabolism has been extensively investigated. However, its contribution to lipid metabolism during the development of poultry follicles remains unclear. (2)...

ESR1 mutations in breast cancer are one of the mechanisms of resistance to aromatase inhibitors. These mutations are common in metastatic breast cancer; however, these are rare in primary breast cancer. However, these data have been analyzed mainly i...

Monitoring of metastatic breast cancer (mBC) is an important issue in the clinical management of patients. Liquid biopsy has become a non-invasive method for detecting and monitoring cancer in body fluids. The presence of circulating tumor cells (CTC...

Introduction: Among uterine tumors resembling ovarian sex cord tumors (UTROSCTs), it has been suggested that GREB1-rearranged cases are biologically distinct from ESR1-rearranged cases and might be considered as a separate entity. Objectives: The aim...

The predominant forms of breast cancer (BC) are hormone receptor-positive (HR+) tumors characterized by the expression of estrogen receptors (ERs) and/or progesterone receptors (PRs). Patients with HR+ tumors can benefit from endocrine therapy (ET)....

Among the various types of breast cancer, the luminal B subtype is the most common in young women, and ESR1-CCDC170 (E:C) fusion is the most frequent oncogenic fusion driver of the luminal B subtype. Nevertheless, treatments targeting E:C fusion has...

Ovarian cancer (OC) remains one of the most lethal gynecologic malignancies due to late diagnosis, rapid progression, and frequent chemoresistance. Despite advances in targeted therapy, durable responses are uncommon, underscoring the need for novel...

Background: ESR1 mutations are biomarkers in breast cancer patients who develop metastatic disease after endocrine therapy (ET). Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) have approved Elacestrant, a selecti...

Background: Dementia causes the loss of functional independence, resulting in a decrease in the quality of life of those who suffer from it. Aims: This study aimed to investigate the interactions influencing susceptibility to the development of demen...

In order to present the relationship between ESR spectroscopy and isotope effects three levels are considered: (i) ESR spectroscopy is described on a general level up to the models for interpretation of the experimental spectra, which go beyond the u...

Estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PgR), Ki-67, and HER2 immunohistochemistry (IHC) together with HER2 in situ hybridization (ISH) are utilized to classify invasive breast cancer (IBC) into predictive molecular subtypes. As IHC evaluation...

As we all know, there are many ways to express emotions. Among them, facial emotion recognition, which is widely used in human–computer interaction, psychoanalysis of mental patients, multimedia retrieval, and other fields, is still a challenging tas...

The use of quartz is critical to the electron spin resonance (ESR) dating of sediments and fault gouges. The germanium center (Ge center) in quartz is a commonly used color center employed in ESR signal measurement. Although Ge center signals in quar...

The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) measures the rate at which erythrocytes aggregate and sediment in a fixed time in an anticoagulated blood tube and is expressed as a speed (mm/h). The ESR is still widely used in human medicine mainly as a mod...

The obesity genetic effect may play a major role in obesogenic environment. A combined case–control and an 18-month follow-up were carried out, including a total of 311 controls and 118 obese cases. All participants were aged in the range of 20–55 y/...

I will argue that, in an interdisciplinary study of consciousness, epistemic structural realism (ESR) can offer a feasible philosophical background for the study of consciousness and its associated neurophysiological phenomena in neuroscience and cog...

The European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), a set of standards to be used by companies to meet the requirements of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), create a paradigm shift in sustainability reporting. Nonetheless,...

The objective of spectral analysis is to resolve and extract relevant features from experimental data in an optimal fashion. In continuous-wave (cw) electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy, both g values of a paramagnetic center and hyperfine spli...

The estrogen receptor signaling pathway plays an important role in vertebrate embryonic development and sexual differentiation. There are four major estrogen receptors in zebrafish: esr1, esr2a, esr2b and gper. However, the specific role of different...

There are two types of nutritionally important polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), namely ω-6s and ω-3s. PUFAs and their metabolites generated from lipid peroxidation via cyclooxygenase (COX) and lipoxygenase (LOX) are believed to be involved in a v...

The aluminum electrolytic capacitor (AEC) is one of the most vulnerable parts in power electronic converters and its reliability is crucial to the whole system. With the growth of service time, the equivalent series resistance (ESR) increases and the...

ERβ has been assigned a tumor suppressor role in many cancer types. However, as conflicting findings emerge, ERβ’s tissue-specific expression and functional role have remained elusive. There remains a notable gap in compact and compre...

The effects of L(+)-ascorbic acid (AA) (an antioxidant commonly known as vitamin C) on the electron spin resonance (ESR) signals from fingernails were examined in relation to X-ray and UV irradiation. The ESR signal intensity, stability, and sensitiv...

The accurate analysis of continuous-wave electron spin resonance (cw ESR) spectra of biological or organic free-radicals and paramagnetic metal complexes is key to understanding their structure–function relationships and electrochemical propert...

At 37°24′ N 22°8′ E, the Megalopolis Basin lies in the central Peloponnese Peninsula, southwestern Greece. In the Megalopolis Basin at ~350 m amsl, the Paleolithic site, Marathousa 1, sits within a palustrine/lacustrine clastic pa...

Background: Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) is an easy test used to diagnose and monitor inflammatory and infectious diseases. The aim of this study was the evaluation of the performance of three ESR automated analyzers, VES-MATIC 5, CUBE 30 TOU...

The Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) is a diagnostic estimator of systemic inflammation as a reflection of acute phase proteins circulating in the blood. The purpose of this manuscript is to evaluate the blood stability at room temperature (RT) a...

Red blood cell (RBC) aggregation causes to alter hemodynamic behaviors at low flow-rate regions of post-capillary venules. Additionally, it is significantly elevated in inflammatory or pathophysiological conditions. In this study, multiple and period...

A combined study of one of the simplest aromatic hydrocarbons, i.e., methylbenzene (toluene) (TOL), via the annihilation of an ortho-positronium (o-Ps) probe via positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) and the rotation dynamics of nitroxid...

The pathobiological role of estrogen is controversial in colorectal cancer. Cytosine-adenine (CA) repeat in the estrogen receptor (ER)-β gene (ESR2-CA) is a microsatellite, as well as representative of ESR2 polymorphism. Though its function is u...